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' J. B. ALLIGER.

SHIPPING PACKAGE.

No. 541,820. Patented July 2, 1895.

citizen of the United States, residing at Chat- ATENT OFFICE.

JESSE B. ALLIGER, OF CIIATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE.

SHIPPING- PACKAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 541,820, dated July 2, 1895.

Application filed October 20, 1894.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JESSE B. ALLIGER, a

tanooga, in the county of Hamilton and State of Tennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping-Packages; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in shipping cases or packages for containing goods of various kinds to be shipped from point to point, such as flour, sugar, apples, potatoes, cabbagos, or any article that is now being transported in what are called slack barrels, the packages being of a permanent character and hence capable of being used over again for many things without impairment, and being also of a cheap and easilybuilt pattern so that they may be made at a minimum cost, and theinvention relates more particularly to the special means for coupling or locking together the sections of the package, and the invention therefore consists in the construction, arrangement and combination of parts, and in certain peculiarities and details thereof, substantially as will hereinafter be fully described and claimed.

In the annexed drawings illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is an elevational view of my improved shipping package complete,with the sections fastened together. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a series of empty sections nested together in a compact form for easy shipment. Fig. 3 is a top perspective view of one of the sections or halves of the barrel. Fig. t isa sectional view on the line 6-6 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a sectional view on the line 5-5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a plan and an end view of one of thelocking wedges. Fig. 7 is a perspective view of one of the wedges.

Like letters of reference denote like parts in all the different figures of the drawings.

My improved shipping package is preferably made in the form of a barrel or cask, although I do not wish to be restricted to this shape, and can make it in any other desired shape, and consists of two half-barrels or sections A A of similar form,which are adapted Serial No. 526.469- (No model.)

to be attached together to constitute the complete package, or to be detachedfrom each other t'opermit the removal of the contents of the package.

Theperiphery of the section A is provided with a circular tongue a which fits tightly into a receiving groove a, provided therefor in the corresponding periphery of the other section A. This tongue and groove however maybedispensed with, as I do not deem them essential, although they are a convenience. The contacting edges of these sections A A are further provided with dovetailed notches or recesses ct, those on the edge of one section being in coincidence with those on the edge of the other section, as shown in Fig. 1, so that a series of double-dovetailed mortises, extending into both edges of the sections, are thereby provided.

B B denote peculiarly-shaped locking wedges of doubly-dovetailed form, and of proper size to fit; into the dovetailed mortises a a. By means of these wedges the sections A and A are firmly locked together. Each wedgeB has the two dovetailed reversely-situated tenons C O. The under face of the wedge is preferably straight and flat, but the other and outer face is reversely-inclined, that is to say, the faces of the two tenons C O are inclined in opposite directions from a transverse or cross line 0, which divides them,said inclinations corresponding to the inclinations of the walls of-the barrel sections A A, so that when the wedges are in position in the mortises as shown in Fig. 5, their outer faces will be flush with the external surface of the barrel. Also it will be observed that the iongitudinal edges of the wedges B, are splayed, sloped, or inclined at C so as to enable them to fit the better into the mortises 0t, whose edges are correspondingly inclined at a These inclinations (1 provide seats as it were, in mortises a, so that when the wedges B are introduced into the mortises from without they will rest tightly and closely therein with the faces of the tenons O flush with the barrel as stated.

In order to keep the wedges B in place after they have thus been situated in the mortises, and thereby enable them to effectually bind the two sections A A together, I employ hoops D D which are driveniover. the barreLin the ordinary way until they surround the series of wedges B and firmly keep them in their places.

By constructing a shipping package in this manner many advantages can be secured. In transporting the empty packages the sec tions may be nested as shown in Fig. 2, and

thus caused to occupy much less. spacethan would be necessary-for packages of the usual form. Thus freight charges will be diminished and a great saving effected. They are also handled much easier than the full-sized packages or barrels. Also there is thead vantage of using the barrels over and over again Without appreciable deterioration or impairment. When the sections are combined, a tight joint is made andthe sections.

will be inseparable so long as the hoops-are kept in place and the joint maintained.

In shipping produce suchtas apples, pears,

onions, cabbage, potatoes, &c., by raising the hoop D and removing the-wedges the package can be used'asltwo display packages.

Having thusdescribedimy:invention, what splayed. edges, and engaging the mortises,

substantially as described.

3; Thecombinationof the sections having dovetail recesses whose edges are inclined, the double dovetailwedges having doublyinclinedouterfaces and splayededges, and seated inthe-reeesses, anda retaining hoop,

substantially as described;

Ill-testimony whereofxl affix my. signature inlpresence of. two witnesses.

JESSE B. ALLIGER.

Witnesses:

GARNETT. ANDREWS, SAM WILLIAMS. 

